Babette Keller won the Veuve Clicquot Businesswoman of the Year 2009 award
Babette Keller, founder and CEO of the company based in Bienne Keller Trading, won the Veuve Clicquot Businesswoman of the Year 2009 award. A first for a woman in the world of watchmaking.
Held every two years since 1985, the Veuve Clicquot Businesswoman of the Year was awarded this year at a reception held May 6 at the Grand Hotel Dolder in Zurich to Babette Keller, founder and CEO of Keller Trading, based in Biel. The prize winner is the thirteenth and the first woman "watchmaker" to have received this prestigious award. Nicola Thibaudeau, CEO of the company based in Biel MPS, he won in 1997, but at the time was the head of Mecanex, Nyon firm specializing in aerospace engineering. Babette Keller was praised for his sense of innovation, creativity and success of his company.
In the region of Bienne, one in five people working in the clock and replica rolex watch industry. While many are working for well-established companies, many others are employed by companies that have succeeded against all odds to find a place for themselves in the market. Of these, Keller Trading is a mixture of luxury watches and haute couture. In this good company, created from delicate fabrics, nylon and polyester microfibers are manufactured with great care. A wide range of microfiber fabrics consumed items requiring expertise is provided to nearly 2000 customers worldwide. Each year, nearly 950,000 items are sold and shipped around the world.
Babette Keller runs his business with a passionate interest for its products and a sense of social responsibility towards its 26 employees, who are mainly women. It offers the flexibility of working hours for each individual. To improve working conditions, it hired a masseuse who comes once a week to relax laborious staff for long hours on the bench.
The mother of four children, Babette Keller is a self-made businesswoman who, after work, like sewing clothes for her little children. In 1987, she accepted an order from his father during the night in his room, on one occasion sewing machine, it produced its first show miles in case of cotton fabric for the company Breitling. After the first models were delivered, the other levels in flooded Fired by the combination of watches and haute couture, embroidery, Babette Keller contacted other manufacturers of watches and won new contracts. In most cases, she developed small blankets, presentation cases and polishing fabrics for its customers. Gloves followed soon after.
Dissatisfied with cotton, which produced too much dust, it has sought to innovate. It was her husband, who finally had the brilliant idea: The microfibers. The entrepreneur passionate in Babette Keller Microfibres trace back to their source, a Canadian manufacturer, and obtained exclusive marketing rights for Switzerland, Europe, and then the rest of the world. In 1999 she created her own business. Ten years later, her address book includes the biggest names in watches and jewelry.
Held every two years since 1985, the Veuve Clicquot Businesswoman of the Year was awarded this year at a reception held May 6 at the Grand Hotel Dolder in Zurich to Babette Keller, founder and CEO of Keller Trading, based in Biel. The prize winner is the thirteenth and the first woman "watchmaker" to have received this prestigious award. Nicola Thibaudeau, CEO of the company based in Biel MPS, he won in 1997, but at the time was the head of Mecanex, Nyon firm specializing in aerospace engineering. Babette Keller was praised for his sense of innovation, creativity and success of his company.
In the region of Bienne, one in five people working in the clock and replica rolex watch industry. While many are working for well-established companies, many others are employed by companies that have succeeded against all odds to find a place for themselves in the market. Of these, Keller Trading is a mixture of luxury watches and haute couture. In this good company, created from delicate fabrics, nylon and polyester microfibers are manufactured with great care. A wide range of microfiber fabrics consumed items requiring expertise is provided to nearly 2000 customers worldwide. Each year, nearly 950,000 items are sold and shipped around the world.
Babette Keller runs his business with a passionate interest for its products and a sense of social responsibility towards its 26 employees, who are mainly women. It offers the flexibility of working hours for each individual. To improve working conditions, it hired a masseuse who comes once a week to relax laborious staff for long hours on the bench.
The mother of four children, Babette Keller is a self-made businesswoman who, after work, like sewing clothes for her little children. In 1987, she accepted an order from his father during the night in his room, on one occasion sewing machine, it produced its first show miles in case of cotton fabric for the company Breitling. After the first models were delivered, the other levels in flooded Fired by the combination of watches and haute couture, embroidery, Babette Keller contacted other manufacturers of watches and won new contracts. In most cases, she developed small blankets, presentation cases and polishing fabrics for its customers. Gloves followed soon after.
Dissatisfied with cotton, which produced too much dust, it has sought to innovate. It was her husband, who finally had the brilliant idea: The microfibers. The entrepreneur passionate in Babette Keller Microfibres trace back to their source, a Canadian manufacturer, and obtained exclusive marketing rights for Switzerland, Europe, and then the rest of the world. In 1999 she created her own business. Ten years later, her address book includes the biggest names in watches and jewelry.
